Yeah! But-! [He fumbles and visibly trips over his words before IV tosses his hands down in defeat. Don't call him out like that, Rio!!] That's not what I meant and you know it-!!!

[IV has spent so much time imaging how she might act if she were to really wake back up from that coma against all odds that the sheer opposite of what's sgoing on now if blowing his mind. At least she has managed to perplex him enough to make him forget any notions of violence at this point?

He listens with a face that keeps growing increasingly more calm and closed off as she calls out each of his flaws, but then she goes on and his eyes grow wide in disbelief.]

Okay, wait, hold on! Are you questioning whether I'm I right now?!